Nasa astronaut gives details about what NASA hopes to see on the Moon

NASA’s Artemis 1 Moon mission, which will be used to prepare NASA for the return of humans to the moon surface, is currently underway.

Stan Love, Nasa astronaut and Nasa site manager was firmly committed to exploring the Moon once more. He spoke to The U.S. Sun regarding what the agency hopes to uncover.

Nasa's Orion's spacecraft, part of the Artemis 1 mission, made it to the Moon this month

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Nasa’s Orion, a Nasa spacecraft that was part of Artemis 1 made it this month to the Moon.Credit to EPA
Nasa astronaut Stan Love explained what Nasa would like to find on the Moon

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Stan Love, a Nasa astronaut explained to us what Nasa wants on the Moon

Love began by showing how the Moon can actually tell us more about Earth.

The U.S. Sun was informed by him that the South Pole of the Moon also houses the largest impact-crater resource system. Therefore, if the Moon is turned around, you will see the southern half of the Moon’s south side from the equator down to the south pole as an impact crater.

“It’s called South Pole–Aitken basin and that dug 13 km down into the Moon’s mantel which is according to the least bad theory of lunar formation, made out of the earth’s mantel.

“We don’t know much about what goes on in the mantel underneath our feet because it’s too deep and too hot but we might be able to find out from the Moon.”

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Love explained to me how crucial it was to find Moon resources.

He told us: “We’d also love to know what natural resources are available, especially volatile stuff, water, carbon dioxide, ammonia, that are common in asteroids and comets.

“The Moon, by itself, is extremely dry. But there might be some of this stuff there.

“Those volatile elements are convertible to breathing oxygen, drinking water, rocket propellant, all sorts of things that we’ll need to explore in space that are already on the Moon.

“So we can use them on the Moon. And, launching things off the moon is vastly less expensive in energy than launching things off the Earth, so we can really kickstart a lunar resource economy if we can find those things there and we’re going to go look.”

Nasa can begin planning Artemis 2 once Artemis 1’s Orion capsule arrives on Earth in the latter part of this year.

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Artemis 2 is a crewed mission that will see astronauts orbit the Moon in manned flight.

This will open the door to Artemis 3 which, hopefully, will see Artemis 3 stand as the first woman or person of color on the moon surface.

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